They started in a tiny little pot at the grocery store, two banana seedlings about the size of a 12-inch ruler. Now they’re a pair of trees standing nine feet tall and pushing the ceiling of Yukon and ...

Fort Nelson and the Fort Nelson Indian Reserve, in the far northeast corner of B.C. about 1,600 kilometres from Vancouver, have a combined population of about 3,000.

Otherwise, Fort Nelson’s revived forest industry will bring 250 to 300 jobs in logging and hauling trees (with much of that resulting in valuable softwood logs being trucked out of the area) and ...